Earlier this week the network card disconnected randomly and a full reboot was needed for it to reinitilize itself. ​ Google search seemed to indicate a problem with this particular card being prone to random disconnects. So I revisited the Onboard NIC as noted above not having a driver, and there is one availablel through the ElRepo linux repository.

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Install the ELRepo respository from http://​elrepo.org/​tiki/​tiki-index.php

Install the ELRepo respository from http://​elrepo.org/​tiki/​tiki-index.php